ride able tanks [Merged]

[Hausfeld]

I would vote yes, but it seems like the Shoebox is still stupidly popular after my month and a half hiatus.

 

[Sodemo]

Sorry to lower the tone, but COD2 had tanks with AI riding on them

 

[Hausfeld]

There really shouldn't even be a debate over this, mounting up on engine decks is a quite functional "must". Being able to roll over the sides of Hanomags would be nifty as well.

 

[SQBsam]

look at the picture that started the thread, now imagine a tank shell flying out of nowhere and hitting that tank right on the back/side.

This has just become a necessary feature

 

[Knighted]

John already said that the tank scenarios are much too vast for infantry to be involved. It just wasn't any fun for anyone stuck on foot. I agree with that statement.

 

[Unterscharfuhrer]

In reality you ride on the tank till u reach the "dangerzone" then you jump off and approach the enemy behind the tank so you can use the tank as mobile cover, this works great in RO but sadly the most tankers dont give a **** for the infantry behind him and drive away...

 

[Alexei]

Perhaps it has something to do with tankers not wanting to do tks when they need to maneuver

 

[fiftyone]

Of coarse we can ride on Tanks, the proof can be found here!YouTube - Stalingrad : Battle Against T 34 Tank In The Snow (HQ)

 

[Zetsumei]

Add to that, that you need to limit the tank from turning its turret etc if its fully crowded etc, no i just don't see this being implemented at all before launch, what if people keeps jumping onto your tanks etc in battle.. too many unnecessary variables in my opinion.

Just lock the torret completely and allow the actual tanker to decide if he wants to transport some people with his tank and allow it, together with giving him a disenbark button.

 

[Extension7]

OoOo. Well if the commander can lock the tank, why can't he just yell "Hey you recruits get off my tank!"

In other words, make a lock for tank riding as well.

Advantage: You have more turret rotation, maybe speed? [(I doubt several soldiers would affect movement THAT much)]

Disadvantage: Your soldiers who cap objectives can't get into battle quick enough to kill all those pesky AT soldiers on your *** ^_^

 

[ZzDe0]

I think it will look silly when you see just one guy hitching a ride on a tank in the middle of battle. It's a stupid thing to do but you know you'd see it.

 

[Unterscharfuhrer]

Perhaps it has something to do with tankers not wanting to do tks when they need to maneuver

Yeah, thats what I think too!

 

[CopperHead]

It would be really cool to hop on a t34 or panzer to get into the battle.

 

[Knighted]

You just aren't going to need this, there isn't infantry fighting involved in the tank on tank scenarios, and the combined arms scenarios are all urban combat.

 

[Alexander Ostmann]

I would love this feature. The only downsides is how one would fix the turret rotation problem. Would it just travel through bodies? Would it force them off? If it did, would it be animated or not? It would be such a nice feature to implement, however.

 

[Toby]

Would be useful, but only, like mentioned, to ride into the danger zones and then jump off.

 

[Hausfeld]

there isn't infantry fighting involved in the tank on tank scenarios

Which is sad. There should always be an infantry option for players to choose from.

 

[TheGameexe]

You just aren't going to need this, there isn't infantry fighting involved in the tank on tank scenarios, and the combined arms scenarios are all urban combat.

All honesty, I believe it should be the fool who decides to ride the tank into a tank battle who needs worry. Not you or I. This is my "communism" speaking but, let it be up to the players. The general population will use it for a base of transportation. Limit the spots on the tank to two, and there you go.

Pros:
Quicker transportation

Cons:
Little to no cover from enemy fire
Slow movement
Extremely dangerous when driving full speed

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Which is sad. There should always be an infantry option for players to choose from.

I'm sure there will be, and plenty once the custom mappers get ahold of the ROHOS SDK. Then we will have all types of scenarios to choose from. We must not forget about that aspect of the game and not just the stock and official mod releases.

 

[Grobut]

Which is sad. There should always be an infantry option for players to choose from.

Allways might be pushing it, playing as infantry on some of the big tank maps that got done for for RO (especially some of the custom ones) was quite pointless, it never really worked propperly.

I'd say the mod had the right idea about combined arms maps, more so than Ost.